Following a protracted war, an island switches hands from one race to another. As the new owners take over, the island seems to come with some oddities, including a story about a shipwrecked man of the new owners' race. One problem: they know this man does not exactly match their description. So the story soon turns into a popular and well-liked legend, especially to a bright-eyed young farm girl gaining reknown as a huntress. Can she find the "Wild Man" on her latest trip into the wilderness?
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Fantasy Tags: Coming of Age, Drama, Alternate Universe, Supernatural, Fantasy, Magic Votes: 315 | Score: 7.45 Size: 28KB / 5,343 words | Downloads: 3804 Posted:
The King names her Princess for a Day. The day of Apriltide - the Rite of Spring. She reigns freely. "FREE REIGN" is a play on words invented on SOL by an uncelebrated poet alluding to the real idiom, "FREE REIN" which is based on controlling a deer or a horse. See also, Free Rein! on FineStories.com. As I said, free reign does not exist... until today, when I found free reign the only apt expression.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Fairytale Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Historical Votes: 14 | Score: 7.45 Size: 8KB / 1,632 words | Downloads: 333 Posted:
The second story of the pair, although really the first (go figure?). Both these tales developed out of one basic idea, that's been kicking around in my head for some considerable time now. I had almost completed writing this one when the idea for "that scene" jumped into my head and that dictated the second scenario. There was just no-way that I couldn't write it!
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Romance Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Melodrama Votes: 317 | Score: 7.42 Size: 115KB / 21,842 words | Downloads: 5367 Posted:
Snow is an unusual young boy raised in the mountains by his mother, a famous fighter and tracker. He spends his childhood isolated from the world learning his mothers craft until one day a rougue bear changes everything. Suddenly Snow is plauged by questions, Why did this bear seem to hunt his mother down? Why is the bear already half decomposed when he finds it? And is his shocking white hair and Glacial eyes just a freak of nature or perhaps a legacy of something greater? Premier members only
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Fantasy Tags: Coming of Age, Fantasy, Magic Votes: 247 | Score: 7.35 Size: 34KB / 6,567 words | Downloads: 3422 Posted:
A knight astride a horse with a grudge. Whatever you do, do not give him his head!
What Free Rein really means. See Sister story Free Reign for the alternative.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Coming of Age, Violence, War, Knights Votes: 26 | Score: 7.14 Size: 4KB / 828 words | Downloads: 480 Posted: